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Brett Swaim | Apr 14, 2009 8:36 PM

You can now configure your File Upload settings from control panel (5.2.3+), including allowed extensions and max file sizes!

Brett Swaim | Apr 14, 2009 8:33 PM

In the never ending effort to make Liferay easier to configure, mail settings can now be set in the control panel (5.2.3+). To do so, go to the control panel and click server administration, then...

Brett Swaim | Apr 14, 2009 8:15 PM

I made a slight change to the login portlet that gives the user the option to create their own password, instead of always having a random password emailed to them at creation time. To enable this...

Brett Swaim | Apr 14, 2009 8:06 PM

After some time of using our message boards, I have realized that when you are searching for something it isn't very clear what scope you are in. I have made some changes...

Neil Griffin | Apr 13, 2009 3:37 PM

JSF has a simple Inversion-of-Control (IoC) container called the JSF Managed Bean Facility (MBF). Although it has a verbose XML syntax, and is not as robust as the Spring BeanFactory,...

Brian Chan | Apr 12, 2009 11:41 AM

This is a worker at my hotel who helped me replace my laptop hard drive. It was 4 am and I had given up because I didn't have a small screwdriver. We tried everything. Finally, he creatively used...

Brian Chan | Apr 11, 2009 11:04 AM

My stay in India was much more comfortable this time around than two years ago. Infrastructure is improving. My hotel was quite nice. In fact, it's as nice if not nicer than what I have at home. I...

Brian Chan | Apr 11, 2009 10:38 AM

Here are some pictures of our new India office. It's in the Raheja Arcade, smack in the center of the Koramangala, the IT district of Bangalore. I was deeply humbled to witness our expansion into...

Arcko Duan | Apr 6, 2009 3:25 AM

Woopra is a powerful tool in beta stage now. See http://www.woopra.com/ for more information. To use it in liferay, currently you need to apply a account and active it on wroopa site. Then you...

Shuyang Zhou | Mar 25, 2009 4:16 AM

When people say JVM tuning, most of the time they mean tuning GC. Before we start to tune JVM for Liferay Portal, let us talk about some basic conceptions of GC. As we all know jvm can handle...

Santh Chetan Chadalavada | Mar 23, 2009 8:42 AM

Portal Pack makes life easier yet again !!. This time with the NetBeans Hook Plugin for Liferay. Available @ Netbeans PortalPack 3.0.2 Introduction: This plugin has been developed to provide hook...

Richard Sezov | Mar 20, 2009 6:33 PM

From the pen of my daughter (age three):

Nate Cavanaugh | Mar 19, 2009 5:19 PM

If you're as cutting edge as our own Jonathan Neal, you might have downloaded the IE8 final that was released this morning at 9am PST. IE8 is a HUGE improvement towards standards, and while it...

Alexander Chow | Mar 19, 2009 2:28 PM

I have been recently working on the very interesting task of making the Liferay database shardable. What does this mean? There is a good introduction to shards here, but basically it is a way of...

Shuyang Zhou | Mar 17, 2009 5:27 AM

I have been in LA more than one month for a new employee training. I graduated on Jan 15th 2009, then start my first job at liferay I like this company and all people here, i really have a good...

satya ranjan | Mar 16, 2009 4:58 PM

The service builder framework in Liferay represents the database layer and all the interactions with database are done through service builder infrastructure. So in this blog, I will explain how...

Ray Augé | Mar 16, 2009 2:46 PM

[PS: this is my personal opinion and should not reflect in anyway the great company I work for.] Quite often we hear the saying that a person is the product of their environment. We all know that...

Brian Chan | Mar 13, 2009 6:41 PM

It's a humbling reminder that Java, AJAX, and the latest Saturday Night Live skits aren't on Time's list of ten ideas changing the world right now. Sure, no one doubts that technology (and...

Ray Augé | Mar 13, 2009 2:43 PM

Alot of people seem to have problems deploying custom plugins to liferay. I admit that deployment can be a little tricky. First off, Liferay has a naming convention which is more than just a naming...

Ryan Park | Mar 9, 2009 4:40 PM

New to the next release of 5.1 and 5.2 are more streamlined templates. We’ve condensed all the includes and some code into 2 includes to cut the confusion and the clutter. Though a small update, I...